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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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